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Comment But apart from use of words such as "surge", "rockets", "blasts off" and "scorching", what got me was the well-known business daily that referred to the IPO as the "new Google". It was with a furrowed brow that I read some of the many hundreds of...
[15 Aug 2007]
News The director of security architecture for the One Laptop per Child project has blasted the IT industry over a legacy of failed desktop security. Making a keynote speech at Australia's AusCERT 2007 security conference, Ivan Krstić said the...
[21 May 2007]
News One of the lead developers behind the Firefox browser has accused Google of abusing its powerful position in the search market to promote its growing range of products. In a blog posting last week, Blake Ross argued Google is wrong to include plugs...
[02 Jan 2007]
News Soon after, the University of Texas received several complaints by students receiving "unsolicited email blasts" from the company, according to court filings. The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from an online dating service...
[11 Jan 2006]
News The company said around 300 staff worked at the site - about a quarter of a mile from the blasts. IT companies were among the businesses that suffered damage in the massive explosions at the oil depot near Hemel Hempstead this weekend.
[12 Dec 2005]
News The National Audit Office (NAO) has slammed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for failing to improve IT systems used for benefits payments. The government watchdog said systems are still too complex and the department has not yet managed...
[21 Nov 2005]
News The UK's data protection watchdog has slammed the government's ID card plans saying there is no justification for storing so much personal and biometric information in a central national identity register (NIR).
[28 Oct 2005]
News Computer users are being warned about a sick new 419 email scam claiming recipients are in line to receive millions of pounds from the estate of one of the victims of the London suicide bombings. The 419 scammers have switched their attention from...
[02 Aug 2005]
News An IT employment analyst has lashed out at claims that IT workers are unhappy and suffering low wages because of outsourcing. Research released yesterday from e-learning firm SkillSoft said UK techies' morale is falling, with techies blaming pay...
[20 Jul 2005]
News A virus has been spotted in the wild which attempts to exploit concerns surrounding the bomb blasts which rocked London last Thursday and left at least 50 people dead. Warning levels are currently low but that makes the attempt to infect no less...
[09 Jul 2005]
News Email traffic has doubled in Europe today after four bombs exploded in central London. A snapshot of email activity from security company MessageLabs found the number of customer emails it monitored grew from the average of 500,000 to one million...
[07 Jul 2005]
News A culture of complacency is being blamed for a significant rise in the number of public sector staff caught accessing pornography on computers at work, according to a new report by public spending watchdog the Audit Commission.
[09 Jun 2005]
News A senior figure at the European Commission launched an outspoken attack on several major US IT firms on Monday, accusing them of exerting too much influence on the progress of the open source community.
[01 Jun 2005]
News Sun Microsystems CEO, Scott McNealy, is disparaging a report that suggests an investment firm is planning a leveraged buyout of the server and software company. McNealy called the report a "totally unsubstantiated rumour" and part of a scheme to...
[03 May 2005]
News A series of co-ordinated bomb blasts on office buildings in 1992 killed over 250 people in the business district of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). Terror threats against offshore IT and BPO operations in India are "credible" and likely to increase as...
[09 Mar 2005]
whitepaper Attacks could strike at local points, with bomb blasts or with the release of chemical or biological agents, or at systems, disrupting computer controls or damaging the power or communications infrastructures.
[26 Jan 2005]
whitepaper The solution - Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5200 Multiservice Platform - blasts through the bandwidth bottleneck to extend the optical edge to the customer premises while empowering KT with the massive bandwidth required to enhance its commercial...
[29 Nov 2004]
whitepaper Construction technologies can mitigate bomb blasts (which is recommended by a National Research Council committee for the commercial building industry). Many anti-terrorism technologies already exist.
[05 Nov 2004]
whitepaper Prior to working with HP digital publishing solutions, HPES's marketing efforts were centered around direct mail distribution of their catalog to customers and prospects, bulk catalog distribution to sales reps, and email blasts.
[18 Sep 2004]
News The man who will be an integral part of the UK's proposed ID card rollout - Information Commissioner Richard Thomas - has slammed the government's plans. Talking to MPs yesterday at a meeting of the home affairs committee, Thomas said he had...
[09 Jun 2004]
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